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Health Minister John Reid set off a storm by saying that smoking is one of the few pleasures left in life for the poor. His comments came just days after Prime Minister Tony Blair said the government was considering banning smoking in public places...

June 10, 2004, Thursday

One of Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest ministers, John Reid, the leader of the Commons, replaced another Blair ally, Alan Milburn, as health secretary in a cabinet shake-up that also ends the historic post of lord chancellor. Lord Irvine, the...

Robin Cook, who resigned from Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet because of Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq without a United Nations mandate, was succeeded in his post as leader of the Commons by John Reid, left, the head of the Labor party...

Britain took back political authority over Northern Ireland today, saying it was doing so with regret but saw no other way to preserve a future for the province's elected government, which shares power between its Catholic minority and its Protestant...

Britain said today that the Northern Ireland peace accord was in danger of imminent collapse and that prompt action by Sinn Fein, the political party of the Irish Republican Army, was necessary to save it. ''I think we are at a stage which is not...

Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, John Reid, left, and Ireland's foreign minister, Brian Cowen, met with leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties for six hours outside Belfast to try to calm rising tensions in the province that have...

June 27, 2002, Thursday

Britain and pro-British Protestant political leaders of Ulster moved swiftly today to capitalize on the long-awaited decision by the Irish Republican Army to begin dismantling its weapons. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, John Reid, told the...

Britain suspended Northern Ireland's three-year-old government tonight and reinstated direct rule from London for the second time in two months, to forestall yet another crisis over the fulfillment of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord. The...

September 22, 2001, Saturday

Hopes of a breakthrough in the stalemated Northern Ireland peace negotiations faded today, and Britain faced the likelihood of shutting down the power-sharing Northern Ireland government this weekend to preserve it beyond then. An impasse over...

Peter Man delson Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest confidant, an architect of the Labor Party's overwhelming 1997 victory and chief planner of its coming campaign for re-election -- resigned from the government today. It was the second time in a...